Archives - 20 May 2017, Saturday

Since the beginning of this month, the West African countries of Nigeria and Cameroon have been hit with a spate of suicide bombings. The majority of these bombings have involved women, an incredibly common tactic in the region. On May 3, three teenage girls reportedly attempted to in...

Last week, Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah gave a televised speech on Al-Manar on the anniversary of the assassination of the group’s commander, Mustafa Badreddine . In addition to his usual anti-Israel and anti-Saudi diatribes, Nasrallah announced the withdrawal of Hez...

As the Army continues to develop a potential replacement for the M4, for a handful of senators, replacing the carbine and 5.56 mm round with a new bullet and better rifle is a no brainer. During a Senate Armed Services Committee subcommittee hearing this week, members heard testimony ...

arrived on Capitol Hill in 2015 best known for a pun-filled campaign commercial where she promised to “cut pork” like she did castrating hogs on her family’s Iowa farm and “make ‘em squeal” when it came to sparring with Washington insiders. So it may come as a surprise that in the las...

The Indian Army is planning to pitch for acquiring a fleet of lethal Apache attack helicopters in a key meeting with Defence Minister Arun Jailtley scheduled this weekend. Highly placed sources in the Army told Mail Today that the combat helicopters for its aviation wing will enhance ...

KODIAK, Alaska — The U.S. Navy will be searching for World War II-era explosives on the ocean floor near an Alaska island in June. The Navy will be looking for any munitions and explosives that may have been left behind in the water surrounding Kodiak Island, the Kodiak Daily Mirror r...

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- An advanced Army simulator is reducing risks and saving costs at the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center. The Universal Mission Simulator (UMS) is a full simulation training system providing readiness to Gray Eagle and...

Home Minister Rajnath Singh today announced that the family of each paramilitary jawan who dies in action will be given a compensation of Rs 1 crore each. He also declared that 34,000 posts of paramilitary constables were upgraded as head constables. Addressing a 'Sainik Sammelan' of ...

Two military fighter jets escorted a Honolulu-bound American Airlines aircraft on Friday after a man allegedly tried to break into the cockpit. The airline said Flight 31, an Airbus A321 aircraft, landed safety at Honolulu International Airport at 11:35 a.m. local time. The flight ori...

The state-owned Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC), in Kamra, northern Pakistan, is looking at counter-insurgency (COIN) roles for its Super Mushshak training aircraft. The move comes after the company successfully integrated a new glass cockpit into the aircraft and sold units of th...

MAGEN BAY, St. Thomas -- Members of a Special Forces team conducted a search and rescue mission during Vigilant Guard 17-03, a large scale national disaster response exercise conducted in the U.S. Virgin Islands, May 15-19, hosted by the Virgin Islands National Guard and U.S. Northern...

BEIJING — China denied U.S. accusations that its jets conducted an unprofessional intercept of an American radiation-sniffing surveillance plane in the East China Sea and urged Washington to stop such activities. The two Chinese SU-30 jets on Wednesday approached a WC-135 Constant Pho...

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Till recently, American space agency NASA and India's ISRO were almost forbidden to talk to each other as sanctions were in place. But that has changed now, and the two space agencies are jointly making a satellite called NISAR that will monitor the Earth like never before. NISAR or t...

Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) The Highly Capable, Truly Scalable Radar The Air and Missile Defense Radar – AN/SPY-6(V) – is the Navy's next generation integrated air and missile defense radar. It is advancing through development and on track for the DDG-51 Flight III destroyer....

HOHENFELS, Germany -- Naval Special Warfare operators from U.S. Special Operations Command along with NATO Special Operations Forces from Albania, Bulgaria and Lithuania, partnered with the U.S. Army's 2nd Cavalry Regiment during Saber Junction 17 at the Joint Multinational Readiness ...

This base best known for its wartime prison has cats. Lots of cats. Kitty cats. Dumpster cats. House cats. Abandoned cats. Foster cats. Stray cats. Tabby cats. Cuban cats. And, by the estimate of activists who want to do something about it, it has upward of 500 feral cats. In an unusu...

I.R.A said: ↑ Dear COAS this very forum couldn't tolerate a thread related to interpretation of Quran, it was locked because Pakistanis felt insecure when traditional narratives were challenged. And how do you expect Pakistanis to come up with a common counter narrative when they cann...

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Former Pakistani president and army chief Pervez Musharraf said that Ajmal Kasab was a pawn whose actions do not compare to Kulbhushan Jadhav's. He also said that Pakistan should have ignored India's petition at the International Court of Justice in the Jadhav death sentence matter. F...

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Community Readiness and Resiliency Integrators (CR2Is) are Army Civilian employees who integrate and synchronize health and wellness initiatives to support senior commander priorities on Army installations. Many of these initiatives, such as fitness centers, chapels and financial read...

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TOKYO — A couple of things about the WannaCry cyberattack are certain. It was the biggest in history and it's a scary preview of things to come — we're all going to have to get used to hearing the word "ransomware." But one thing is a lot less clear: whether North Korea had anything t...

How it all began – a brief history of the RAF Association In 1929, in the Sergeants’ Mess at RAF Andover, three men named Vernon Goodhand, Joe Pearce and Warrant Officer Bartlett met to discuss the formation of a single organisation dedicated to the welfare of serving and ex-serving R...

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Every year approximately 15,000 skilled and capable men and women leave the Armed Forces after having selflessly served on behalf of their country. The majority make this transition successfully but for a meaningful minority the departure from the structured world of the military is n...

It was an all enlisted ceremony, too. An Army command sergeant major was the commander of troops, a sergeant major conducted The U.S. Army Band in the national anthem, and each of the services' honor guards were commanded by noncommissioned officers or petty officers. Army Staff Sgt. ...

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